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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Posted by: Chris Goodman (Monday 16 January 2006, 9:20 PM)
I don't know whether the Competition beaurocrat in Brussells would accept it as anything other than unfairness, but I am of the opinion that if Microsoft (or any other OS supplier) provided schools with their OS at a cost only price there would in a very few years be a new adult generation who really only knew that OS.
But here the question of piracy would really need to be technically solved for schools systems first - I am sure that there are many in the education services using pirated applications.
I do, of course, feel that Microsoft and many others do charge far too much for their mass usage software.
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